How to Use a Fitting Kit

Our hidden fireplace brackets give your wood fire surround a great finish, and fitting them couldn't be easier. Watch our step-by-step video guide below.

If you already have a fire surround and would like to buy some fitting brackets, you can order them here.

It may look complicated, but fitting one of our surrounds couldn't be easier

This guide assumes your hearth and back panel are already in place. If not, read our guide to fitting a hearth and back first.

1. Decide where you want your fire surround to sit on the wall. Usually this will be central to your chimney breast or central to the room.
2. Stand the fire surround roughly where you want it, and measure from the edge of the chimney breast to the surround until both sides are equal.
3. Once the surround is in the perfect position, very carefully pull one side a couple of inches away from the wall. With a pencil, mark the wall just inside the edge of the surround, making sure the mark will be hidden by the surround when you put it back. Do this on both sides.
4. Carefully move the fire surround away from the wall.
5. Using a ruler, measure 30mm in from your pencil mark (towards the centre of the surround). This is where the edge of bracket B will be fixed.

Fitting the brackets to the wall

The brackets are designed to stop the surround falling forwards, so you don't have to worry about getting everything level.

1. In the pack you'll find two right-angle brackets (A), two bent brackets (B) and four wood screws.
2. Position bracket B halfway between the shelf and the fire opening, and mark where the screws need to go on the wall. The height isn't critical, but we'd suggest fixing the bracket as high as possible.
3. If you have a masonry wall, drill into the wall and fix bracket B using wall plugs. As every installation is different, we don't supply the screws or wall plugs for this.
4. If you have a plasterboard wall, tap the wall until you find a wooden batten. The brackets don't have to go in any specific place, but try to find a batten as high as possible.

Note: if you can't find a wooden batten near the top of the legs, you can screw bracket A to the inside of the shelf top and turn bracket B horizontally.

Fitting the brackets to the surround

1. With bracket B fixed to the wall, take bracket A and slide it by hand down behind bracket B.
2. Holding the bracket in position, measure from the hearth to the middle of the screw holes on bracket A.
3. Turn your fire surround around so the back is facing you. Measure up the inside back of the leg by the same amount and mark the surround. Using a straight edge, draw a horizontal line at this point: you'll see this line through the screw holes when you position bracket A, which makes it easier.
4. With the flat edge of the bracket level with the back of the surround, fix the bracket to the inside of the leg. The screw holes in the brackets are elongated so you can adjust the bracket once fitted, so aim to put your screws in the centre of these holes.
5. Once both brackets are fitted, lift the surround up and onto the wall brackets. If you need more tension, take the surround down, loosen brackets A, move them back slightly and re-hang the surround.

Not buying a fire surround but need a fitting kit? Order fitting brackets here.

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